Re: Film may not be dead.....

[Graywolf]

You are correct about that, and even then they would not all agree. I do have 
8x10 print made from a downloaded 13.9mp Kodak DSC14 image and a cropped 8x10 
machine print from a ASA 400 6x7 negative. When I showed them to the guys at GFM 
Camera clinic year before last, most of them preferred the digital. The only 
real dissenters where myself and one of the speakers (I can't think of his name 
at the moment --blame the NPH, but he is the guy who took the photo of the hippy 
putting a flower in the National Guardsman's rifle barrel). They liked the 
creamy smoothness of the digital even though there was far far more detail in 
the 6x7 print.

So, it is not even just a case of what is better, it is also a case of what 
someone wants to see. Subjective as hell.

As I have said before, the process of analog photography is an important part of 
photography as a hobby to me, and going by apug.com and other film orientated 
websites to many others as well. Those who are only interested in the images 
will obviously prefer digital. Those who enjoy the whole process will continue 
to use film (by the way only about 1% of those who take photos did their own 
processing even before digital came along the numbers probably have not changed 
that much, just the perceptions about them).

I will close with the comment that in your and Rob's last posts you both 
admitted you like film, especially B&W but are just too lazy to mess with it at 
this time. Got a message for both of you. Keep proselytizing digital and you 
will help make film disappear, then you will never have to make the choice.

graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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Paul Stenquist wrote:
By the way, all these arguments are pointless, because they're based on 
conjecture. For example, no one is sitting there with a high quality 
print from a 16 megapixel camera comparing it to a high quality print 
from MF. And even if one of us were doing that others could say that one 
or the other really wasn't top quality. The only thing that will prove 
the point is time and the consensus opinion of history. Until then, it's 
all a matter of personal opinion, based primarily on pure conjecture.

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